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Good Fence - Bad Fence
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kuhnkat
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What do you expect from the Eurotrash and the Lefties in the US. They are still wishing their ancestors had done a much better job of rounding up Jews for Hitler.
Posted by: kuhnkat on December 21, 2005 01:06 AM
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Bill Levinson
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If it were up to me, I would deploy mines and attack dogs in the zone between the Palestinians and Israel (with a chain link fence to keep children, livestock, or pets from entering inadvertantly). In fact, I would go a step further.
Cordwainer Smith's future history science fiction stories included machines called "Manshonyaggers," which were originally Menschenjagers or Man-Hunters; really nifty war machines from the Sixth German Reich. They were designed to detect German thoughts and to kill everyone who did not have German thoughts. (I've often thought that German teachers should have their students read "Mark Elf" on the first day of class, as an extra incentive to pay attention. Imagine a heavily-armed robot with a turtle-like body, legs like a grasshopper's, and three metal heads walking up to you and asking, "Sprechen Sie Deutch?" when you HAVEN'T done your homework or reading for the next class?)
The American Kaskaskia Effect was, by the way, even less discriminating; it simply killed everybody whose brain was sufficiently complex along with the Menschenjagers' electromechanical computers. Mental deficients and simple animals could live in the Kaskaskia Effect, which means that Palestinian militants and cockroaches would have been the only survivors.
Anyway, I would think that Israel could build some kind of autonomous fighting machine that could be programmed to patrol a certain area, and to kill everything within that area that moved or emitted human-level heat. IDF personnel and their service dogs could wear IFF, Identify Friend-Foe, transponders that would prevent the Menschenjager or whatever from shooting at them. The kill zone would be clearly marked and also secured by a chain link fence, so children, pets, and livestock could not enter and be killed by accident.
The virtue of this approach is that the machine, like a mine, is impartial. The only way a Palesimian can be killed by either is to deliberately cut through the fence and enter the killing zone. The IDF cannot be blamed for shooting him "indiscriminately." In the case of the U.S./Mexican border, where killing someone for immigrating illegally would be excessive and unreasonable force, a microwave "pain ray" (http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001652.html) can be substituted for a lethal weapon.
Enough pleasant thoughts, it is getting late here. I am, incidentally, familiar with one of Cordwainer Smith's very useful nonfiction works. Dr. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger's "Psychological Warfare" is regarded as a classic.
Posted by: Bill Levinson on December 21, 2005 02:03 AM
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BobW
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Shalom Bill,
Re " Sixth Richt"; "German Thoughts"
During the 1980s and 1990s this was happening in the US. Remember all those primary school psychological tests? Buried with the basic questions were the others relating to what can be called opinion and the required thought control. About three quarters of these tests were really personality profiles. It was psychological assessment under thre pretext of assessment. This method was used to delititimize critics of the education establishment and their allies.
This was also done in the military.
This was also done in the federal civil service.
It was attempted in the corporate world - with limited success.
Fortunately, they lost.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on December 21, 2005 10:17 AM
Good Fence - Bad Fence
In 2004, the United Nations and the European Union launched an attack against Israel's security fence, resulting in a ruling by the International Court of Justice that the fence was illegal and should be torn down. Although America vetoed the resolution, the veto was not a statement in support of the fence. Rather, America's objection was that the resolution was 'unbalanced' and 'failed to draw attention to 'Palestinian terrorism'. Yup. "Palestinian terrorism."
Never mind that there is a clear correlation between Israel's construction of it's fence and a drop in the number of terrorist attacks. Never mind that in September of 2004, Shin Bet reported that there had been an 84% decrease in the number of Israelis killed in terror attacks since the completion of the first portion of the security fence between Salem and Elkana. The Bush administration, along with the EU and many others around the world, has been, and continues to be, highly critical of Israel's fence.
In what can only be called a shameless display of hypocrisy, just one month after the ICJ ruling, the EU announced it's plan for a separation fence of its own to separate two of its members - Poland and Hungary - from its new neighbors - Russia, Belarus and Ukraine - to prevent illegals from crossing country lines. To add insult to injury, the EU invited Israel to participate in the construction.
And now, the United States is planning a fence of its own to prevent illegals from entering the country from Mexico.
There is no doubt that none of those migrants from Poland, Hungary or Mexico come equipped with an explosive belt and none of those migrants are hell-bent on murder, mayhem and chaos. Those illegals sneak in seeking jobs.
The EU fence will keep illegals from entering the EU and therefore, is good. The American fence will keep illegals from entering America and therefore, is good.
The Israeli fence will keep arabs with explosive belts strapped to their bodies from entering Israel and killing Jews, and therefore, is bad.
The end result: more of this.
cross-posted at Something... and Half of Something
Posted by LindaSoG at December 20, 2005 08:38 PM